Improvement in portable picket-fence



@anni @Mira duted 5131125 GEORGE W. C. JARvIs AND CHARLES GRAVES, 0E LAPEER,

v MICHIGAN.

Leners Pawn-z No, 92,727, man .my 2o, 1869.

xMPRovEMENT :1r4 PQRTABLE Picker-FENCE.

we do declare thatvthe following is a true and accu.

rate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, andto' the letters of reference marked thereon, and being a part of thisspecication. l v" The nature of this invention relates to au improvement in movable picket-fences, and consists in a peculiar arrangement of its rails, and in the method of sustaining the same. y

A, in the drawings, represents the upper and lower longitudinal rails of a section of fence, to which the pickets B are nailed. The rails of each section are so disposed at the back f the pickets, that the rails of one section will slide between those of the next, and tov which they are secured by the pins C, driven through holes bored in the ends of all the rails, and are attached to the pickets B in such manner that at one end of the section these ends are nearer together than at the other.

Their ends are secured by means of the pins C, as described, and when the latter are removed, the rails of one section are placed upon those of another, in such manner that each rail shall be parallel to that on which it rests. They may then be pushed along until two sections occupy the same length of space as one.

D are stakes driven from behind the upper and in front of the lower rail of each section, into the ground, and E are similar stakes driven into the; ground from the front of the upper and behind the lower rail, and, in the crotch-so formed,`the fence is supported by the upper rail resting in it,\while the lower part of the fence is secured by the stakes embracing the lower rail.

These stakes are necessary only when the sections are employed to construct a fence upon a straight line, as when what is termed a worm-fence is to be set up, the sections may be turned upon their pivots C to the proper angle to render them self-sustaining, thus forming a cheap and durable portable fence of either description.l v

When used as Aa worm-fence, by removing` two of the pins, any section may be swung around asa gate, to enter or leave the eld at any convenient point.

What we claim as ourinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the rails A, iuclining toward each other in each panel, the pickets B nailed to said rails, the .connecting-pins O, and the supportingstakes D, constructed and operating as above described.

GEORGE W. G. JARVIS. CHAS. GRAVES.

Witnesses:

lW. W. STICKNEY, A. 'Jenson Looms. 

